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A game with less safety play would be useful. Safety play is hard, and when you do it well, it still doesn't look very impressive to the untrained eye. I play multiple racks of 3-ball with a running score. 18-racks generally make up a match. If you are down four strokes with 3 racks left to...

It is a fun game. I like it because it gives me a way to track how my game ebbs and flows. It is interesting to look when you have a week where you are shooting high scores versus weeks you are shooting low scores, and then go back and think about what was going on in those weeks. It is amazing...

Check to see which eye is dominant. I write right handed but shoot pool and a gun left handed. I came to it naturally, but later learned that my left eye is dominant. If you don't know how to check which eye is dominant, pick a point on the wall, point your finger at it. Cover one eye, note...

I'm guessing in a lot of places, the amount of net revenue a pool table takes in versus the amount of floor space it consumes is a lot lower than the amount of revenue the bar or a tabletop produces per square foot, for example. Pool needs to figure out how to increase the amount of per square...

My 9-foot Brunswick Anniversary comes in at 1.07. Everything was average except the pocket angle figure. Thanks for the system. Kind of neat to check

As user AtLarge said, Mike Page has a really excellent post about the difference between head-to-head pool games and those that are based on a scoring system. (IE, lowest number of strokes in 3-ball, highest run in 9-ball, etc.) The post is here...

Just looked at the BehindTheRockTour website. Has anyone ever played in one of their tournaments? What did you think?

Thanks all. I'll check them out. I wish I was good enough to play 14.1 well.

In another thread on this forum (Danny Harriman’s thread on Pure Pool) a commenter had said how he wished there was a game that was "something like bowling and golf where you play against the game and not an actual opponent ." Another commenter responded that there used to be tournament or...

Originally Posted by macguy View Post I always thought that something like bowling and golf where you play against the game and not an actual opponent is a good test of who is the best. Not that we need to get rid of anything just add to tournaments another aspect of the game. It makes...

I love it when I tell people I like to play pool, and they say I must be good at geometry. I tell them I sure am. I can almost name 40 of the 52 states now.

The cue ball issue is a big one. If you are going to be playing competition in the future with an oversized cue ball, then practice with the oversized cue ball. But if you will be playing in tournaments and leagues and such that uses a normal size cue ball, you should practice with that size...

Sounds right. I'd better call Saul to get more info.

I think there is something to what Macguy says. Playing against the game instead of a competitor can be instructive. I try to play 18 racks of 3-ball each day. Write down my scores, and I can really see how my game is trending. Plus it makes practice more fun. It is not the only game I play, but...

Does anybody have any thoughts on what I bought? Obviously just a decorative piece now. I like the inscription. It reads N.W. Mull 1903 to I.E. Lewis 1938. No other marks I can find, except some guy carved his initials WW.